Joseph Cao Elected to Congress
Anh 'Joseph' Cao, who fled Vietnam as a child after the fall of Saigon, was elected in Louisiana as the first Vietnamese American member of Congress. (Shares Dec 6 with the 1942 Manzanar Uprising.)
Sources
- history.house.gov history.house.gov/People/Detail/44592
- cnn.com cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/07/louisiana.cao/index.html
Also on December 6
1942